Monday, November 10th, 2008
This video at Reason.tv suggests that many people who lack health insurance can afford it, but choose not to.
From Reason.tv:
“Of people currently classified as uninsured, a conservative estimate says about 45 percent of them would be able to get health insurance right now if they wanted it,” says economist Glen ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
As of Thursday night, this Arizona ballot measure is very close with 90% of precincts reporting. 50.1% No to 49.9% Yes. Check out the latest here. My fingers are crossed for this to pass, but I won't hold my breath.
Here's the text of the Proposition:
Because all people should have the ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
From the Institute for Health Freedom:
Seniors Defend Right to Social Security Benefits in Brian Hall, et al. v. Michael Leavitt, et al.
A lawsuit challenging the withholding of Social Security benefits from seniors who decline Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) was filed October 9 in U.S. District Court for the ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Here's a ballot initiative to try out in Colorado, from Sue Blevins at the Institute for Health Freedom:
This November voters in Arizona will decide whether to amend their state constitution to protect their private health-insurance options. According to the Arizona Secretary of State’s website, the ballot initiative known as “Proposition ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Would you call the police on someone who didn’t donate to a charity that you consider to be a “worthy cause”? If not, then you should oppose [Boulder] County Issue 1B in this November’s election, which would extend the so-called “Worthy Cause” sales tax.
The above is from my article printed in the ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
The Pacific Research Institute has released its 2008 U.S. Index of Health Ownership, which "measures the degree to which individuals, be they patients, health professionals, entrepreneurs, or taxpayers, 'own' the health care in their states." From the report:
Perhaps the best way to understand this concept is through examples of what ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
On buying health insurance directly from an insurance company instead of through one's employer, ABC News Medical Editor Dr. Tim Johnson states:
The idea that individuals are going to have enough knowledge and enough savvy and enough insight and, frankly, enough guts to make choices all by themselves is pretty much ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
From 9 News:
Legislators grilled the state's health care agency Monday over multi-million dollar mistakes and the firing of a whistle-blower, but the agency denied there was any wrongdoing.
"A smoke-and-mirrors game is being played," said Rep. Frank McNulty (R-Douglas County) on the legislative audit committee. "Something is dead wrong at the ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Richard Ralston, director of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, makes this point in a recent article. An exerpt:
Would a complete government monopoly in medicine create a system in which politicians care primarily about you? Or about their spoils system? Would your disease be politically correct and place you first in ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Continuation of my critique of the AFL-CIO commentary here and here.
In their Denver Post commentary, AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo say that Hillary and Obama are correct to be
skeptical of the idea that the market is the right entity to put in charge.
Are they saying that the ...
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